Issue Twenty-One, January 2026
Issue Twenty-One of Haven Spec Magazine is here at last! Subscribers get the issue on January 26th, 2026, and the free-to-read online version goes up on February 2nd. We're calling this one our January Issyou because every story and poem in it has been written in second-person POV. In these pages, you'll find fiction by J.A.W. McCarthy, Elou Carroll, Allison Pottern, Matt Tighe, Cynthia Zhang, Lia Lao, and Diana Dima; poetry by Faith Allington, Olumide Manuel, anaum sajanlal, and P. H. Low; and thoughts on this issyou's fiction by our very own associate editors!
Cover Artist
Aimee Cozza
Aimee Cozza is a freelance illustrator, web designer, and author from New England. She graduated from New England College (Formerly New Hampshire Institute of Art) in 2012 with a BFA in illustration. Aimee primarily focuses on subjects regarding the dark-beautiful, surreal, and unsettling, within genres of sci-fi and fantasy, often mixing or blurring the two. She enjoyed exploring themes such as duality, disconnection, doomed romance, and mental illness/trauma. Her debut sci-fi novella, The Warm Machine, was published with a successful crowdfunding campaign in 2024 to a positive reception.